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This is interesting, but Apply is going to need to show the server space a little love before people will start to seriously consider OS-X as a server target --
by troyk 16y ago
This is interesting, but Apply is going to need to show the server space a little love before people will start to seriously consider OS-X as a server target -- but they should, because they have a nice cut of developer mind share and an advantage to leverage (not that they should, but they could) with iphone/ipad web services
- cmelbye 16y agoYeah, seriously. I can't even imagine how I would use this in production. Super expensive Xcode + built in apache that probably can't proxy to a backend server all that easily? It's just too inflexible to be seriously considered.
- joshus 16y agoHere is one interesting bit from the nut-shell: "We are also interested in other non-traditional ways an embeddable Ruby web app server might be useful for native app development."
- tlrobinson 16y agoI'm not sure I understand. Xcode is free with OS X. Apache on OS X is just like any other Apache, it has mod_proxy, etc. Not to mention you can install Nginx or any number of other web servers.
- cmelbye 16y agoSorry, meant Xserve. Apache can be modified, yeah, but you'd have to edit the config file manually, bypassing the graphical interface that Mac OS X server gives you.
- Manfred 16y agoI think Control Tower is primarily meant to run local web services in situations where you don't want to depend on anything except Mac OS X and MacRuby. As you can see it has no external dependencies and is the only web server –apart from WEBrick– which runs on MacRuby without compiling any additional code.